In early September of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen (1646), Chongzhen led 5,000 new troops, 3,000 cavalry and 800 Yiding to the new army camp five miles east of Pingyiwei.

Li Xiangjun actually wanted to come to the front line to participate in the war, but Chongzhen did not agree.

Needless to say, Chongzhen still thinks that fighting a war is a man's business.

There is no problem for women to join the army, but it is still okay to go into battle and kill the enemy, this is not discrimination, but there is an irreparable physical gap between women and men.

Some people will say that it doesn't take much physical strength to shoot a gun.

The problem is that fighting is not just about guns, after shooting, you have to charge, you have to fight with bayonets, and women can't compare with men in these things.

All in all, the female soldiers just stayed in the rear to protect the supply lines.

After all, the two caravans of Wang Hu are continuously transferring grain to Pu'an Prefecture along the official road in Qianzhong, and the bandits and thieves along the way and even some toasts have already set their sights on this piece of fat.

Wang Pingshan and Hu Renzhi still overestimated the capacity of porters along the way.

This was because they had never transferred such a large amount of cargo before, so there was an error in the estimation, which led to a delay in the transfer of grain.

So far, the first batch of 200,000 stone military rations has been transferred to Pu'an Prefecture.

However, the follow-up 400,000 stone military rations are still halfway, and the official roads from Tongguwei in eastern Qiandong to Pu'an Prefecture in western Qianxi for more than 1,000 miles are all porters pushing chickens and carts and mules and horses carrying grain.

But the imperial army had already arrived in Pu'an Prefecture and could no longer accompany it to protect the caravan.

Therefore, Chongzhen left the women's barracks to protect the two caravans of Wang and Hu.

Of course, it is still a little unsafe to protect the supply line with more than 5,000 female soldiers, so Chongzhen left Qin Liangyu's 3,000 white pole soldiers behind, and Shi Yan Xuanfu Division has already shed too much blood for the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen really can't bear to let Shi Yan Xuanfu Division have another batch of little widows.

To get back to the point, when Chongzhen led the rear army to arrive, he saw that the 100,000 native soldiers in western Hunan and Hubei had already set up more than 30 large camps along both sides of the official road in eastern Yunnan.

At the forefront, less than five miles away from Pingyiwei, was the camp of the New Army.

After Chongzhen led more than 8,000 rear troops to arrive, he directly lived in the new army camp.

Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and other dozens of leading soldiers stepped forward to salute Chongzhen.

"Excuse me." For the real imperial lineage, Chongzhen is very casual.

"Youzhen, and Wanheng, can the rebels take the initiative to go out of the city to attack in the past seven or eight days?"

"Nope." Xu Yingwei said, "The rebels of Pingyi Wei have never been able to shrink, even after the reinforcements arrived three days ago, they still can't shrink, but they are just constantly strengthening the city defenses. ”

Chongzhen said: "Reinforcements?" How many reinforcements have arrived? ”

"At least 10,000 people." Yan Yingyuan said, "Maybe more." ”

Chongzhen pondered for a moment, and instructed Gao Qiqian: "Gao Companion, you go and inform Ran Sanniang, let her select a toast from Shi Nan Xuanfu Division, and immediately attack the Pingyi Guard, you will stay in this Tusi as a supervisor, and tell all the local soldiers before going into battle, and if you lay down the Pingyi Guard, each local soldier will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" ”

"The old slave commands." Gao Qi rushed away.

It's really not easy, our old Gao finally became a prison again.

……

At this time, in Pingyi City, Sha Dingzhou was also very confused.

"Mr. Tang." Sha Dingzhou asked Tang Guest, "It's been seven or eight days since the official army came to Pingyi City, but they haven't even made a tentative attack, what are they doing?" ”

Tang said: "If the subordinates are not mistaken, they should be waiting for some kind of weapon." ”

"Waiting for a weapon?" Sha Dingzhou's expression suddenly turned grim when he heard this, "Hongyi cannon? ”

"It should be." Tang said, "Although the Hongyi cannon is infinitely powerful, it is extremely cumbersome, and the official road in Qianzhong is difficult to travel, so there is no way to arrive quickly. ”

"You can't let the officers and soldiers transport the Hongyi cannon!" Sha Dingzhou was in a hurry.

"If we let the officers and soldiers transport the Hongyi cannons, then we will definitely not be able to hold Pingyi City."

"Don't worry about it." Guest Tang comforted, "The native soldiers of the Xiwu Stone Cave Division, the Education Division, and the Gumu Division have all traveled from Yizuo over the mountains and mountains, and they will be able to attack and harass the official road in Qianzhong in a few days, so the Hongyi artillery of the official army will definitely not be able to reach Pingyi City, at least in a short period of time, it is absolutely impossible to transport it." ”

Hearing this, Sha Dingzhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Because of the lethality of the Hongyi cannon, he has seen it.

There are more than a dozen Hongyi cannons on the head of Kunming City.

It's a pity that these Hongyi cannons are too cumbersome, otherwise, he would definitely dismantle these dozen Hongyi cannons and transport them to Pingyi City, so that the certainty of holding Pingyi City will be greatly increased.

While I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard the faint sound of a bull's horn.

Immediately, the general Li Rifang hurriedly came in and reported: "The general government, the official army is about to attack the city!" ”

"The officers and soldiers finally can't hold it back?" Sha Dingzhou's face sank suddenly, and he got up and said, "Let's go, take a look." ”

After a while, Sha Dingzhou went to the east gate of Pingyi City surrounded by Tang Guest, Li Rifang and others, and saw that there were already black Ming officials and troops outside the east gate, not to mention 3,000 people.

"It's a native soldier!" Tang Guest was well-informed, pointed to the entanglement of the officials and soldiers outside the city and said, "Judging from their head-wrapping style, it should be the native soldiers of Rongmei Tusi under the Xuanfu Division of Shinan in Western Hubei." ”

"It's a native soldier?" Sha Dingzhou's expression moved slightly.

Guest Tang also reacted quickly, and whispered: "Is the general government planning to buy the local soldiers?" ”

"That's right." Sha Dingzhou smiled and said, "Whether it is the Yongshun Xuanfu Division and the Baojing Xuanfu Division in Xiangxi, or the Shinan Xuanfu Division in Western Hubei Province, they have traveled thousands of miles to Yunnan to fight us, not because of how loyal they are to the Ming Dynasty, but entirely because of the silver, as long as they want silver, it will be easy to do." ”

"Indeed." Tang said with a smile, "The most important thing we don't lack in Yunnan is probably silver." ”

After a pause, Tang said again: "General Mansion, tonight, my subordinates will send people to infiltrate the Tusi camp to contact, strive for all the Tusi to defect, and give the Ming officials and troops outside the city an internal and external attack." ”

Sha Dingzhou said categorically: "No matter how much silver they want, you can promise them." ”

"The head office is really the unborn hero." The Tang guest patted his ass and said, "If the Lord is like this, our army will win!" ”

While the two were talking, 3,000 native soldiers had already carried dozens of bamboo ladders to the outside of the city, and the rebels guarding the city began to snap bird guns and Lumi guns, as well as bows and arrows.

……

The rebel firepower poured madly down, and the local soldiers of Rongmei Toast fell one by one.

However, the Rongmei native soldiers were indeed tyrannical, although the casualties were large, but none of them flinched, the native soldiers in front fell, and the native soldiers in the back picked up the bamboo ladder and continued to rush forward.

After paying hundreds of casualties, the Rongmei soldiers finally rushed to the outside of the city.

Immediately, more than a dozen bamboo ladders were erected, and before the bamboo ladders could rest against the city wall, more than a dozen Rongmei native soldiers had already swished up with their mouths and swords, and they rushed up in two clicks.

However, the rebels at the head of the city did not panic at all.

Some carried the rolling log and threw it down, some lifted the stone and smashed it down, and some held a long wooden fork to fork the bamboo ladder, trying to overturn the ladder with people, and the rebel musketeers and archers also continued to shoot, constantly pouring lead, iron sand and arrows on the heads of the Rongmei native soldiers crowded under the city wall.

Although the Rongmei soldiers had wooden signs, people still kept falling.

After a stalemate of about two quarters of an hour, a bigger blow landed on the heads of the Rongmei native soldiers, and spoonfuls of boiling gold juice poured down from the city, first poured on the wooden plaque, and then flowed down the wooden plaque to the native soldiers.

Suddenly, a continuous wail rang out from under the city walls.

Seeing this, Chongzhen sighed lightly and said, "Collect the troops, don't be tempted." ”

"Collect the troops, quickly sound the horn and collect the troops!" Ran Sanniang, who was guarding Chongzhen's side, shouted eagerly.

Casually, the distant and long horn horn sounded, and when the distant horn sounded, the Rongmei native soldiers crowded under the city wall retreated like the tide of the ebb tide.

But of the 3,000 native soldiers who attacked, only 2,000 returned.

The remaining 1,000 Rongmei native soldiers have been lying under the city of Pingyi forever.

This is war, and in less than half an hour, more than a thousand lives will be gone.

Ran Sanniang was so distressed that her beautiful eyes were red and she wanted to cry, and Rongmei Tusi Tian Xuan was so angry that his face was pale, but he was not angry with Ran Sanniang and the emperor, but angry with the Yunnan rebels.

"General Tian." Chongzhen said, "The fallen Rongmei soldiers are each given a pension of fifty taels!" ”

The silver that should be spent must be spent, for example, the pension silver for the fallen soldiers must not be saved, otherwise in the follow-up battle, don't think about the soldiers working for the court.

"The old minister respectfully bows on behalf of the home of the fallen soldiers, and thanks to the Holy Lord." Tian Xuan hurriedly knelt on the ground and thanked him.

"Old general, please get up." Chongzhen stepped forward to personally help Tian Shu up, and said, "Although Rongmei Tusi has lost nearly a thousand native soldiers, their sacrifice is not without a price, at least let us know that it is the elite of Amiszhou and Mengzi who are stationed in Pingyiwei, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to have such combat effectiveness." ”

"The old minister thinks the same way." Tian Xuan nodded.

"Since the native soldiers of Amizhou and Mengzi are leveling the guard, it will be simple." Chongzhen smiled and said, "Spread my will, from now on, the whole army will strictly guard the barracks, and it is strictly forbidden to fight without authorization." ”

"Huh? Strictly guard the barracks and do not come out. Ran Sanniang, Tian Xuan and the other toasts looked at each other.

Only Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and other Qinwang scholars vaguely guessed Chongzhen's intentions.

As soon as he returned to the camp, Zhu Cijiong couldn't wait to ask: "Father, are you waiting for the Guangxi wolf soldiers?" ”

"You're smart." Chongzhen smiled and said, "That's right, my father is waiting for the wolf soldiers in Guangxi." ”